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I think that it's amazing how they had built the brick walls 
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I think it’s really crazy and sad that the Europeans came into Zimbabwe and made up a fictitious history and completely denied the possibility that black people could have made such amazing and beautiful structures. I also didn’t realise before that the argument of the white people coming into Zim and South Africa was that they arrived roughly around the same time as the black people. It is just so crazy to hear all of the things they came up with to make themselves feel justified to do all of the horrible things they did since arriving on the continent. 
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I think that it's amazing how they had built the brick walls without any binder like cement up to four stories.

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I think it’s really crazy and sad that the Europeans came into Zimbabwe and made up a fictitious history and completely denied the possibility that black people could have made such amazing and beautiful structures. I also didn’t realise before that the argument of the white people coming into Zim and South Africa was that they arrived roughly around the same time as the black people. It is just so crazy to hear all of the things they came up with to make themselves feel justified to do all of the horrible things they did since arriving on the continent.

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I found the late statement in the video to be the most intriguing where the narrator highlights on the idea that many problems we experience today may be as a result of not understanding human civilizations from the beginning of time.

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I'd love to see those ruins at some point

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I'd love to see those ruins at some point

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I'd assume the reason they didn't want to admit that black people could build things like that was because if they did they'd have to admit to a certain extent that they were equals - and if they did that then they'd probably then have to come to terms with the fact that they really hurt a lot of people and most will avoid that at any cost (at least, as far as I've seen)

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Alot in the video went through my mind. I wear gold faithfully and to see how they worked for it and how it was a very strong currency also the fact that they said white people and black africans arrived in africa the same time, and the audacity for those white people to say they were any type of ancestors in Africa. It doesn't even sound right for a white person to be an ancestor in Africa. and I love the last quote, "Only Africans have been denied of their history."

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Ethiopia claims Sheba for the basis of their kingdom.  Europeans use Sheba to claim Zimbabwe as theirs.  Why did they think that Sheba was white?  The European claim is also running through Solomon, who was Jewish and the Jews were persecuted in Europe at that time.

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Ethiopia claims Sheba for the basis of their kingdom.  Europeans use Sheba to claim Zimbabwe as theirs.  Why did they think that Sheba was white?  The European claim is also running through Solomon, who was Jewish and the Jews were persecuted in Europe at that time.

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Similar to the architecture in Ethiopia, I found the architecture in Zimbabwe to be quite astounding. Especially since the walls are built without any agent actively sticking the rocks together! I think that it is insane that students tend to not be taught about this when it is such obvious evidence of African history. I find it to be quite ridiculous that many people believe that African history begins with the introduction of Europeans when there is so much evidence to support the contrary!

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What resonated most with me was actually the last clip, which stated that all societies remember what they want to remember. Obviously, as was the point, this is most true for societies against Africa. It would be easy to justify inhumane actions against what one doesn't believe to be of human relevance in the first place. That justification is, I think, one of the driving causes for the long denial of African history. I also thought it was interesting how the walls of great Zimbabwe were created without the use of mortar, to me that is crazy impressive.

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I appreciated being able to see the compound and learning what it was used for. It is very true that Zimbabwe and the other countries in Africa don't get to manipulate their history like the rest of the world, and when we were watching the second video I thought back to what I was taught about when learning about the continent and it is very different from the truth.

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I find it hard to wrap my head around the notion of the Zimbabwe palace. How the walls were free standing and they reached up to four stories high. It's also so impressive how they made the stones with the hot water which breaks the ground. Truly amazing piece of architecture

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It was very irritating to hear the comments made by white men who questioned the building abilities of the Zimbabwe people. Their claims that it must have been a white tribe was ridiculous and far fetched,  and showed the racism that denied the Zimbabwe history.

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When I hear about "A history denied" I usually conjure in my mind the passive  (although still intentional) exclusion of a history of a people. But in this case, we have a bunch of white colonizers actively constructing a different and false lie of what history is (that Great Zimbabwe actually a Phoenecian society. This is Keenen, btw.

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The wholesale rejection of Zimbabwe's history and the erasure and desecration committed by the white settlers seems very representative of European colonialism as a whole, and has shifted the way we are now viewing human history. It's also incredibly ironic, considering just how important much of the wealth, gold, and all around trade from Zimbabwe was integral to the advancement of Europe around the Renaissance.

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the last comment that he stated is very true, I think a lot of the problems we face today could be a result of not understanding the first human civilizations and not having a proper understanding of them. Also it was disappointing to know that many of the art and objects of ancient Zimbabwe aren't held in Zimbabwe anymore and that white people have taken everything.